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"en.20120911.32.2-400-500"2
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"Today’s vote on the permissible sulphur content of marine fuels is, overall, a major step towards improving air quality in the European coastal areas, considering that the pollution caused by ships could exceed land-based pollution as early as 2020. This directive incorporates in EU legislation the standards established by the International Maritime Organisation in 2008 with the aim of reducing the overall sulphur limit in European seas to 0.5%. However, I cannot give my full support to the new directive, as the new limit values envisage large differences in sulphur emission limits between various regions of Europe, giving rise to competitive imbalances not only within the shipping sector, but also with land transport. In the Sulphur Emission Control Areas, that is, in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the English Channel, there are already stricter standards in place than elsewhere in Europe; the sulphur content of fuels must not exceed 1% by mass up to 2015, and after that – 0.1%. Elsewhere, for example, in the Mediterranean Sea, the sulphur limit will have to be brought down from 3.5% to 0.5% by 2020. In the future, serious work will have to be done on standardising the permissible sulphur content of fuels throughout all European seas – setting it at the level established for the Baltic Sea."@en1
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